Survey in ?

[hdshot]

Glancing at the article they need a breeding survey to determine if the season will even open.  Sounds like the annual waterfowl survey could be in serious jeopardy and yes about covid causing a two year pause which had nothing to do with current slashing of budgets. High possibility someone will write off to keep season with little to no survey results. 

https://www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/doge-cuts-impact-waterfowl-survey

[Mikey The Cat]

DOGE firings at NOAA could affect steelhead and salmon hatcheries and fisheries. DOGE firings at DOI and USFWS could affect the migratory bird season setting process. No one knows. Not NOAA. Not DOI or USFWS. Least of all the White House. It's going to be an "interesting" 44 months...

[hdshot]

DOGE firings at NOAA could affect steelhead and salmon hatcheries and fisheries. DOGE firings at DOI and USFWS could affect the migratory bird season setting process. No one knows. Not NOAA. Not DOI or USFWS. Least of all the White House. It's going to be an "interesting" 44 months...

Feels like they know we just don’t have the cards anymore.  Earned my hunters ed card back in 86 and seen a lot of losses with never getting any of it back in the waterfowl world. 

[Mikey The Cat]

I can't say that, sir. I got my Hunter Ed card from the late Bruce Knodel (Ohio) in 1972. Took it with my father. Killed my first fox squirrel that year...and have spent the past 53 years enjoying the Outdoors. Had incredible duck seasons. Had slow duck seasons. Have had the opportunity to see and do things and go places I never would have had it not been for migratory fowl. Best of all has been meeting the people.

I, too, have seen a lot of changes. The swamp where I killed my first duck in '74 is gone. The farm where I killed my first rooster pheasant is a Walmart. The ground where I killed my first WA Merriams is homes. Same story with the timber where I killed my first whitetail. The Ohio DFW, Washington DFW, Missouri, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois...owe me nothing. They've provided the opportunity -

I'm 60. Ain't done yet, but it's been a hell of a ride thus far. I can't honestly complain -

[BD1]

  a Hell Yes and an AMEN to that 

[tracksoup]

I can't say that, sir. I got my Hunter Ed card from the late Bruce Knodel (Ohio) in 1972. Took it with my father. Killed my first fox squirrel that year...and have spent the past 53 years enjoying the Outdoors. Had incredible duck seasons. Had slow duck seasons. Have had the opportunity to see and do things and go places I never would have had it not been for migratory fowl. Best of all has been meeting the people.

I, too, have seen a lot of changes. The swamp where I killed my first duck in '74 is gone. The farm where I killed my first rooster pheasant is a Walmart. The ground where I killed my first WA Merriams is homes. Same story with the timber where I killed my first whitetail. The Ohio DFW, Washington DFW, Missouri, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois...owe me nothing. They've provided the opportunity -

I'm 60. Ain't done yet, but it's been a hell of a ride thus far. I can't honestly complain -

I Love this!!! The glasses half fulll.